[Nottingham] Local mail server - again.....

[David Aldred]

I asked a while ago about ideas for setting up a mailserver on my main machine 
to allow other people to read/post from other machines on teh network.   
Thanks to those who replied: I shelved it because the methods suggested 
didn't quite do what I wanted, but my ideas of 'what I wanted' were a bit 
vague.

The problem is this:  in this house, some of us check email daily (or often 
far more frequently!); others only look if I put on my AOL voice and tell 
them they have mail!   Currently, KMail is set up to gather all the mail for 
everyone who doesn't check regularly, and sort it into KMail directories so 
that I can tell who's got mail.  This also allows me to give incoming mail 
for the younger children the once-over before telling them about it - 
spammers don't know the ages of their targets....

My ideal would be to leave this as it is, but for any user to be able to 'log 
in' to any of the KMail directories from any machine.   That would mean 
having an IMAP or POP server which used (eg) 
/home/david/.Mail/.Family.directory/Ben/cur 
as the directory from which mail was served when Ben logs in from another 
machine.

Does anyone know whether this is feasible?

-- 
David Aldred